Seeing that Wu Shigong's army had begun to prepare to attack the cottage, Li Harrier also knew that the negotiations had broken down. At this time, in Li Harrier's cottage, there were those gathered in his own cottage, and after Li Harrier knew that Wu Shigong was going to attack his own cottage, he handed over the bandits to Haode to ask for support, and the bandits who came to reinforce were a total of seven or eight hundred bandits.

In addition, there are more than 600 family members of Li Harrier's own bandits in the cottage. Therefore, Li Harrier's number is dominant.

However, seeing that in Wu Shigong's army, the soldiers were strong and well-armed, and these bandits did not dare to attack the outside of the cottage. It's just that on the wall of the cottage, rolling wood and stones are prepared, passively defending against the attack of Wu Shigong's army on the cottage.

And although Wu Shigong is ready to besiege the cottage for a long time and fight a protracted war. But always try to attack the cottage.

A small number of soldiers attack the city, and there are only a few siege methods chosen. Using a ladder to climb the city wall to "attach ants" is definitely not possible. Wu Shigong couldn't withstand such a big loss of his own soldiers. Then the only way to break through the gate of the cottage and enter through the gate is to fight through the gate.

Under Xue Yongli's orders, a group of soldiers pushed a large wooden board (that is, a large wooden board erected in front of the cart to act as a shield), and followed the musketeers behind the carts, as well as the pikemen who protected the musketeers, to prevent any bandits from coming out of the cottage.

Seeing the approach of the chariot, the archers on the wall of the cottage shot a row of arrows. However, it was protected by a large wooden plank in front of the truck, and it did not cause any damage to the soldiers. Seeing that archery had no effect, the bandits also stopped shooting at the behest of the bandit leader.

The soldiers pushed the wagons to the edge of the ditch in front of the cottage, which was only about thirty paces away from the walls of the cottage. Behind the wagon, the gunners loaded gunpowder and bullets, and at the orders of the officers, they leaned out from behind the large planks and shot at the bandits on the walls with their heads and bodies exposed.

After several intensive shots, no bandits dared to show their heads on the walls of the cottage. After reloading the bullets again, the musketeers watched the walls vigilantly to prevent the bandit archers from appearing.

At this time, a dozen horsemen came to the trench and threw hooks with thick ropes. A few hooks hooked the drawbridge, and the horsemen dragged the ropes behind the hooks behind them and tied them tightly on the horses.

After all the hooks hooked the drawbridge, all the horses, under the slogan of "one, two, three", worked together to break the rope that held the drawbridge in the cottage at once. The drawbridge fell over the ditch, revealing the gate of the cottage.

Seeing the suspension bridge fall, the middle truck moved to both sides, revealing a large gap. And the five artillery pieces that had been prepared for a long time bombarded the gate of the cottage through this large gap.

After the five guns opened fire one after another, only two artillery shells hit the gate of the cottage, and the other three shells all hit the stone wall next to the gate of the cottage. Splashed with small stones. But the stone walls of the cottage are really strong and heavy, so for these stone walls, these damage is simply negligible.

Wu Shigong shook his head when he saw this situation, it seemed that although the soldiers in his artillery team had learned to shoot the cannon, the accuracy of the cannon was really enough.

And at this moment, the soldiers in front shouted loudly: "This gate is not blocked!" Then fire! ”

In fact, the power of Wu Shigong's five guns is very small. Even the two shells that hit the gate of the cottage only hit two small holes in the gate of the cottage, and did not cause any fatal damage to the gate of the cottage at all.

However, the light that came through these two small holes made the soldiers in front of them realize that there were no stones or sand behind the gate of the cottage.

This is also Li Harrier's negligence. He didn't know Wu Shigong's determination to attack his cottage at all, and he didn't know that Wu Shigong had a sharp weapon like artillery, so he didn't bother to block the door at all.

You must know that if Li Harizi blocked the gate of the cottage with stones and sand, with Wu Shigong's five cannons that were not much more powerful than the firecracker, he would never be able to break through the gate of the cottage. Wu Shigong can only honestly besiege the cottage.

But now, Wu Shigong found out about this situation and became excited. After all, if you can build the cottage earlier, the cost of your own materials and the energy spent will be much less, and it will also be able to give Lei Ying and these bandits a great deterrent.

Therefore, Wu Shigong immediately ordered the artillery to fire from the front to improve the accuracy of the artillery's firing. The artillery was fired in bursts. When he arrived in Zuihou, almost all the shells brought by Wu Shigong were also gone.

Wu Shigong set off this time, that is, he brought 30 shells. Because although Wu Shigong also made an artillery, his cannonballs only had forty rounds brought out when he left the capital (at that time, Xue Lian gave Wu Shigong ten shells for each cannon) and the cannonballs that Yang Goudan made for him.

And this time when the gate of the cottage was bombarded, Wu Shigong's five guns fired a total of more than 20 shells. These shells hit the gate of the cottage like a pockmarked face. But the gate of the cottage was not knocked down. It can be seen that the power of Wu Shigong's artillery is indeed too small.

However, the damage of these shells to the gate of the cottage was enough. The soldiers in the back had already tied up the small trees cut down nearby and fixed them on the carts, and with knives in front of them, they cut the bundled trees into tips and made them into improvised battering rams.

More than a dozen people pushed the cart slowly to the road in front of the gate of the cottage, everyone shouted in unison, pushed forward, and the other soldiers followed in line.

The soldiers pushing the cart ran faster and faster, and soon they were on the drawbridge, shouting in unison, and the bundled trees slammed into the wooden door. With a "bang", the door of the cottage, which was already weak, was simply knocked open.

The soldiers in the cart were all escorted by Wu Shigong from the capital, and they had all seen blood when they were exterminating the Holy Spirit Society. Therefore, they did not hesitate to draw their knives and axes from the car and rushed into the cottage to seize the gate of the cottage.

The bandits under Li Harrier do have some brave bandits. Seeing that the gate of the cottage was broken, several bandit leaders led dozens of bandits and rushed towards the gate of the cottage, trying to snatch the gate of the cottage back.

But at this time, the firecrackers behind also rushed to the gate of the cottage. They raised their firearms and a volley came. When the first group of musketeers finished shooting, the second group of musketeers also arrived. They then came with a salvo.

Just these two volleys crippled the dozens of bandits who wanted to retake the gate of the cottage at once. Even those bandits who were not defeated by the fire guns also shouted and turned around and fled, and a vacant space suddenly became vacant in the gate of the cottage.

Wu Shigong here, there were more and more soldiers who rushed into the gate of the cottage, and they were not in a hurry to enter the cottage, so they began to line up in the open space in the gate, and lined up a small phalanx of nearly 300 people.

Seeing that his soldiers had completely mastered the gate of the cottage, Wu Shigong also led the remaining cavalry and soldiers into the cottage. Under Xue Yongli's order, except for the cavalry guarding Wu Shigong, the other soldiers began to divide into small teams and enter the cottage to search and exterminate the remnants.

Everything happened so neatly that Thunder Eagle and the bandits who were watching the battle were dumbfounded. They definitely didn't expect that Wu Shigong's soldiers were so strong in combat effectiveness. Lei Ying also thought in his heart: If Wu Shigong's soldiers attack his own cottage, it must be the same as now, the autumn wind sweeps away the leaves.

After all, bandits are not regular troops, and they follow the principle: if they can fight, they will fight, and if they can't fight, they will flee. When Wu Shigong's army rushed into the cottage, the bandits fled in the other three directions of the cottage.

Therefore, the team that searched for the remnants of the bandits basically did not encounter any resistance, and quickly advanced to the cottage, in front of the house where Li Harrier lived.

Now many bandits who have not escaped have gathered in this mansion, ready to resist stubbornly. When Wu Shigong dismounted and came to the front of the mansion surrounded by guards, his soldiers had already surrounded the mansion.

The attack in front was also too smooth, and Wu Shigong ordered his soldiers to attack again, to capture this mansion in one go.

However, as soon as the soldiers charged, a volley of arrows shot out of the courtyard and shot the soldiers in front of them to the ground at once. I don't know which of the sharpshooters among the bandits shot an arrow when he aimed at Wu Shigong.

Of course, Wu Shigong was standing outside the range of the bow and arrow, so when this arrow came over, the flight of the arrow was already a little floating. But under carelessness, Wu Shigong didn't notice the arrow at all. Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards around him suddenly pounced on Wu Shigong's body and pressed Wu Shigong to the ground.

The arrow was in vain. But Wu Shigong was pressed by his own guards, and he was crushed to the point of pain, and his body was covered with mud, which looked particularly embarrassing.

Wu Shigong became angry all of a sudden, he simply suspended the attack on the mansion, and went outside to bring in two cannons to blast open the gate of the mansion.

Seeing that the artillery was pushed in, the bandits in the house suddenly became chaotic. One of the bandits shouted loudly: "Master Li, whether you fight or surrender, you send a message to your brothers!" ”

But suddenly another bandit shouted: "Fuck Li Harrier, who should light the sky lantern, he has already run away." Let the brothers fight hard here. It's down, it's down! ”

The bandits in the house were in chaos all at once. It didn't take much effort for the bandits on the walls of the house to wave a white flag. After asking Wu Shigong for instructions, Xue Yongli began to arrange for soldiers to accept the surrender of the bandits.